[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3394 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3394

To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
 of certain assets of foreign persons and entities to satisfy certain 
      judgments against terrorist parties, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2015

   Mr. Posey (for himself, Mr. Trott, Mr. Deutch, and Mr. Johnson of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
 of certain assets of foreign persons and entities to satisfy certain 
      judgments against terrorist parties, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clarifying Amendment to Provide 
Terrorism Victims Equity Act'' or the ``CAPTIVE Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CERTAIN ASSETS TO SATISFY JUDGMENTS AGAINST TERRORIST 
              PARTIES.

    Section 201(a) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 
U.S.C. 1610 note) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``For 
purposes of this section, the blocked assets of a terrorist party are 
subject to execution or attachment in aid of execution in order to 
satisfy such judgment regardless of whether the terrorist party ceases 
to be a terrorist party after such judgment is entered.''.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    Section 201(d) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 
U.S.C. 1610 note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``means'';
                    (B) by amending paragraph (2)(A) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(A) means any asset seized or frozen by the 
                United States under section 5(b) of the Trading With 
                the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 5(b)), under sections 202 
                and 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
                Act (50 U.S.C. 1701; 1702), or under section 805(b) of 
                the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 
                U.S.C. 1904(b)); and'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Person.--In subsection (a), the term `person' means a 
        person who, at the time the act of terrorism described in 
        subsection (a) was committed upon which the judgment described 
        in such subsection was obtained by that person, was either--
                    ``(A) a national of the United States as defined in 
                section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality 
                Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22));
                    ``(B) a member of the Armed Forces of the United 
                States; or
                    ``(C) otherwise an employee of the Government of 
                the United States, or of an individual performing a 
                contract awarded by the United States Government, 
                acting within the scope of the employee's 
                employment.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act apply to any judgment entered 
before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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